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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In the German Reichstag Prince Bis
marck's military bill was defeated on the
18th, and Bismarck Immediately dissolved
that body A new election will be held
February 81.
SOUTH AMERICA advices of TIE 18th say
that cholera was raging in Uruguay and
the Argentine Republic, hundreds of per-
sons dying daily.
THE Berlin police on the 18th forbid the
sale of pamphlet issued by Socialistic
society in Chicago in denunciation of the
Anarchists trial
IT is said that Irish pauperism in Ireland
| increased sixty per cent. during the past
year.
A FIRE destroyed the Arlington Hotel at
New Westminster, B. c., on the 18th, and
three guests, Thomas Mackey, George
Campbell and Rufus Brown, were burned
to death.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were expert
enced on the 18th at Montpelier and several
other towns in the south of France.
THE Canadian Parliament was dissolved
on the 18th, and the election of new mem
bers had been set for the 22d of February.
In Western Scotland SO deep was the
snow on the 18th that out-of-door labor had
been largely suspended.
BY the explosion of boiler on the Mos
guerra estate at Matanzas, Cuba, on the 18th
five persons were killed and several others
were injured.
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THE EAST.

JOHN M. WILSON, who confessed in Chi
cago in October, 1884, that he had murdered
Andrew w. Dealy in Pennsylvania, was
hanged for the crime on the 18th at Norris
town.
NEAR the Horseshoe falls at Niagara a
vast mass of rock and ice fell into the
gorge below on the 18th, changing very
materially the formation of the precipiee
on the Canadian side.
WILLIAM AGNEw, of Palmyra, N. j.,
while drunk on the 18th struck his wife
with chair and killed her.
GENERAL JOSEPH R. HAwLEY was on the
18th unanimously renominated for United
States Senator by the Republicans of the
Connecticut Legislature.
On the 18th Senator Wolverton was NOM
mated for United States Senator by the
Democrats of the Pennsylvania Legislat
ture.
AN attempt on the 14th to reduce wages
iii the tobacco factory of P. Lorillard, at
Jersey City, caused a strike of thirty-five
hundred employees.
HENRY B. STANTON and Thomas Powell,
veteran journalists, expired on the 14th at
New York. The FIST was the husband of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and was in his
eighty second year.
ADvICEs OF the 14th report that the bark
Craighir, bound from Liverpool to Phila-
delphia, had been lost with her crew of fif-
teen men.
REV. SAM JONES commenced a series of
revival meetings in Boston on the 10th be-
fore immense audiences.
FLAMES on the 10th destroyed the Eliot
church, at Trenton, Mass, valued at $40, 900.
A CoAL-BREAKER at Plymouth, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on the 10th, causing a loss
of 100000. Over four hundred men were
thrown out of work.
On the 18th the publishers of General
Logan's book reported that up to the date
of his death they had paid him an average
of one thousand dollars per month, and the
sales had since increased to marvellous
degree.
THE death of Mrs. Abby Kelley Foster,
one of the most noted workers in the cause
of temperance in New England, occurred
at Worcester Mass, on the 10Th, at the age
of seventy-six years
THREE persons were overcome in tene-
ment-house at Troy, N. Y, on the 18th by
odorless gas while conversing. Their
corpses were found in their chairs.
ARTHUR j. MoQUADE, one of the New
York Doodle aldermen was taken to Sing
Sing Prison on the 18th to serve seven
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
Habits, Haunts and characteristics of thC
Hound of the PlanS"

Hound of the Plains"
ERNEST Ingersoll, in Popular Science Monthly.1
A picture of the Great Plains is incom4
plete without a coyote or two, hurrying
furtively thrSugh the distance:
The coyote is VOLTA wolf about two
thirds the size of that one which hauntS
forests and the pages of story-books. He
has a long, lean body; legs trife short,
but sineWy and active; head more foxy
than Woltish, for the nose is long and point
ed; the yellow eyes are set in spectacle
frames of black eyelids, and tho HANGING,
tan-trin1med ears, may be erected, giving d
well=merited air Of alertness to their wear
er; a tail-stfaight as pointer's-alsO foZ'
like, for it i9 bushy beyond the ordinary
lupine type, and a shaggy, large-maned,
wind-ruffled, dust-gathering coat Of dingy
white, suffused with tawny brown, or ofts
en- decidedly brindled
"a shade in the stubble, ghost by the wall,
Now leaping, now limping, now rislsing fall;
Top-eared and large ointed but ever alway
A thoroughly vagaband outcast in gray
Such is the coyote-genats loci of the plains;
an Ishmaelite of the desert; a consort Of
rattlesnake and vulture; the tyrant of his
interiors; jackal to the puma; bush
whacker upon the tanks of the buffalo
armies; the pariah Of his own race.
Our coyote is a true Westencr, and typi-
fes the independence, the unrestrained
gayety and brisk zeal which enter into the
heart of him who sights the Rocky Mount
ans. He is little known at present east
ward of real bunch-grass plains. In early
days, however, he was common enough in
the open country of Arkansas, Missouri,
Illinois and northwdrd, whence he received
the name "prairie wolf" Threading the
passes, he wanders among the foothills Of
all the complicated mountain system that
forms the 'crest of the continent" and
dWells plentifully in California valleys.
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LATER.

CHARLES B. FARwELL (Rep.) was ON the
18th elected United States Senator from III.
inois by a plurality of 33 votes over William
r. Morrison (Dem.). G. K Davis (Rep.)
was chosen Senator from Minnesota Eu-
gene Hale (Rep.) from Maine, George Gray
Dem from Delaware, Joseph r. Hawley
(Rep.) from Connecticut, F. B. Stock
bridge (Rep.) from Michigan, George
Hearst (Dem.) from California, NJ s. Quay
(Rep.) from Pennsylvania, and f. M. Cock
relI Dem.) from Missouri
THE signal officer at ST. Paul reported
temperature of 36 degrees below zero at
five o'clock on the morning of the 1Sth-the
lowest point of the winter
PROF. E. L. YoUMANs, the famous writer
and lecturer on scientific subjects, died on
the 18th in New York, in his sixty-sixth
year.
SCATTERING returns on the 18th from the
Eighth Wisconsin district indicated that
Nels P. Haugen and Hugh FL. Price, Repub-
licans, were elected to Congress for the
long and short terms, respectively.
EMPLOYEES of three iron foundries at
Montreal, to the number of eleven hun.
dred, struck on the 18th against reduc-
ton of ten per cent. in their wages.
GOVERNOR JAMES A. BEAVER, of Pennsyl-
vania; Governor Green, of New jersey
Governor Ross, of Texas, and Governor
Biggs, of Delaware, were indicted into Of
fee on the 18th
The Republican Legislative caucus at Al
bany, n Y, took two ballots on the 18th
for United States Senator, which resulted
as follows: Miller, As; Morton, 50; His
cock, II.
DURING panic in a London theater on
the evening of the 18th, caused by cry of
fire, twelve woman and five youths were
crushed to death.
In the Indiana Senate on the 18th the
vote for United States Senator stood; Tur-
pie Dem. J, 80; Harrison (Rep), is. House
Harrison, SO; Turpie, 43; Allen, 4. No
choice
G. B. BUCK and his son, of Michigan, and
Charles Davis persisted in blizzard in
Dakota on the 18th.
In the United States Senate on the 18th
Mir. Morrill, reported bill to reimburse
the depositors of the Washington Freed
mems Bureau. A resolution was passed
for the appointment of a joint committee
of five Senators and eight Representatives
to consider the expediency of holding, in
1892, an International exhibition Of the in
dustries and productions of all countries
A bill was introduced providing that
all claims of religious, charitable
and educational institutions for prop
erty taken, used or occupied by
the army of the United States,
may be submitted to the Quartermaster-
General within one year from the passage
of the act. In the House the Committee on
Invalid Pensions reported bill increasing
from S72 to 500 the allowance of soldiers
and sailors who have lost both arms The
Post-ofice Appropriation bill was reported
and the Interstate Commerce bill was de-
bated.
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PENSION BILLS PASSED.

The House Passes Measures for the Re-
lief of Veterans of the Mexican War and
the Great Neutrality-suspicious. of Their
Provisions.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.--The House yes
terday passed the bill for the relief of de-
pendent parents of disabled soldiers and
sailors of the late war by vote of l79 yeas
to rs nays. The total number of persons to
be benefited is estimated at 80, los and the
annual cost to the Government at less than
S6000,000.
1.-THE bill as passed provides that parents Of
deceased soldiers, in cases where there are no
widows or minor children, shall only be required
to show that they are without other present
means of support than their own manual
labor, and that, this being done, they
and all persons who served three
months or more in any war in which the United
States has been engaged, and who have
been honOrably discharged therefrom and are
incapacitated for the performance of labor suf~
ficient to earn support, shall be placed on the
list of invalid pensioners, and be entitled to re-
ceive twelve dollars per month. such pen
sions to commence on the filing of application
in the Pension Office. The act does not apply
to persons under political disability.
The bill to pension veterans Of the Mex
lean war was also passed-y3as, 243; nays, ,.
1T provides that pension Of eight dollars
and enlisted men, including Marines militia
and volunteers; of the military and naval serv-
ices of he United States, who, being
duly enlisted, actually served sixty days
with the army navy of the United
States in Mexico, OR on the coasts or from
tier thereof, or en- route thereto, in the war
with that nation or were actually engaged in d
battle in sH'd war and we're honOrably dis
charged, and to such other officers and soldiers
and sailors as may have been personally named
in any resolution of Congress for any
specific service In said war and the surviv-
ing widows of such officers and enlisted
men, provided that such widows have not
remaffitd provided that every such officer,
enlisted man Or widow who is or may become
sixty-two years CT age, OF who is or may become
subject to any disability Or dependency equiv
alefit 10 some cause prescribed or recognized
by the pension laws Of the United States
as sufficient reason for the allowance of
a pension, shall be entitled to the benefits
Of this act; but it shall not be held to include
any person not within the rule of age or dis
ability or dependency herein defined, or who
incurred such disability while in any manner
voluntarily engaged in or aiding or abetting
the late rebellion against the authority OF the
United States
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
Americas Biggest Diamonds.

N. :. UUT. IlOCHtSUtT UuIOH.
The largest diamond in the country is
said to be the one worn by Minnie Palmer.
1t is called ''the President Cleveland. :"
The next largest is owned by Tiffany. The
third largest is in the possession of Charles
Levy, the proprietor of a Center street
cafe. He brought it from the South Afri-
can mines. When first cut it weighed 152
karats. 1t has since been trimmed down to
So karats, aud it is now said to be one Of
the finest stones of its size in the world. 1t
is valued at $4,000. These figures show
that the diamonds of to-day far outstrip in
value those worn in Tweed's time. Jim
Fisk's great headlight cost only S18, 900.
Boss Tweed's was never valued at more
than $4,000, and Judge Barnard's kicked
the beam at 100.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

The growing inclination of people
for outdoor winter sports is one of the
gratifying social signs of the times. Its
prelude was the skating rink, but this
was only Il counterfeit of nature and
soon ran its course. Now there is a
revival of real skating on the ice of
rivers, ponds and lakes, in the pure out
door air. There is no better or more
eXhilarating physical exercise. Haw-
thorne loved it so well that when young
he used to skate alone on the lake
until midnight The toboggan slide is
another exhibition of our growing har-
diness.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

THE inquest in the recent disaster,
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at
Republic, o., disclosed the fact that the
engineer of the freight train was under
the influence of liquor, and permitted
the steam in his engine to get so low
that the train moved very slowly, He
appeared to have no idea of the hazard
he was running or of the imminent
danger of the approaching express.
When, at the last moment, the con-
ductor of the freight train took a Ian
tern and ran ahead to signal the ex-
press, it was too late to save the train
from destruction.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
England,s Drnnkards and Paupers
[Chicago Tribune

IUnlCdgO ITlDunt.
Recently published official statistics show
that one out of every thirty of the popula-
ton Of Great Britain is an avowed pauper,
in receipt of parish relief. There are an
nually $4,000 apprehensions in the United
Kingdom for drunkenness. There are,
moreover, 100000 drunkards, $4,000 bar
men and bar-maids, and 10000 saloon
keepers and beer-sellers. The annual drink
bill amounts to S750,O0O,0OO. England, how
ever, seeks to atone for this by spending
S7,000,00O per annum in missions to the
heather, as against 100000 similarly en-
ployed by Germany, $4,000 by France, or
81, 100000 for the whole of Europe. This
would seem to be a case where missionary
work should begin at home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

The Raila0Gy Age publishes table of
the extent of railway construction in
the several States and Territories
during the past year The tota! mileage
OF the new mainline track built was
over 5000. This has been exceeded in
only two years in the railway history
of this country, namely, in 1881, when
9,796 miles of track were constructed,
and 1882, when II, 56S miles were con-
Structed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

MONTANA cattlemen are alarmed for
the future, owing to the overstocking
of the ranges. Last year witnessed a
heavy influx of cattle to winter. Herds
were brought over the trail from Rio
Grande, and in their famished condition
placed onranges already so fully stocked
that only a mild winter could prevent
heavy losses. Up to Christmas the
weather was favorable and all was
well, but since then the temperature
ranging as low as 40 below and blind
ing storms, before which cattle drift in
spite of all efforts, reduced the cattle in
flesh, causing the owners heavy losses.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

A PAPER in Nevada has evidently
mad experience in shortage on mining
stock, as it remarks as one having au-
ithority: "The new rule now to follow
i'm buying stocks is to buy 'em when
they are low and sell when they are
high and watch your broker with a
shot-onn.n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

SENATOR CULLoM, OF Illinois, gets
The scat in the United States Senate
Chamber which was occupied by his
late colleague. The seat was awarded
to Senator Henderson, who obtained it
two years ago, but when General Logan
was returned to the Senate General
Henderson gracefully surrendered it to
him. After Senator Logan's death it
was again occupied by Senator Man
dcrson, but he has now given it to his
friend Cullom.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

THERE was no evidence of temporary
insanity in the note which poor old
Amos Binney, of Boston, left recently
for the coroner: "This is a case of
simple suicide, and there is no need of
AZ coroner's inquest. Being an old
man, somewhat unfortunate and feeble,
and at the same time poor, am UNI
willing to go to the poor-house, and so
have decided to make an end of it,"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

WITTRocK, one of the express rob
bers, said thai ne specially stipulated
with the detectives that lie would not
surrender any of tie stolen money I'M
til the mortgage Of 81, 700 on his moth
er's house at Leavenworth, Kan, had
been raised. This, he said, had been
done anr4 he is now willing to serve
his terri of seven years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

THE latest estimate shows that $780,
100000 worth of bets in which the mon
ey is to be donated to some worthy
charity is made in the United States
every year. The most frightful feature
of the statement, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean, is that the worthy charity
rs invariably forgotten in the distribr.-
Ain,,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
Cuteness of the Company.


'Why don't they open some Of the ven
tilators and get some of the smoke and bad
air out of this car!'' inquired one passenger
Of another, on the smoking car of surbur-
ban train. sob, that's the cuteness of the
railroad company" ''Cuteness of the COM
panys" .:Yes. In case of an accident TO
the train, and lot Of passengers in the
smoking car should be found dead in the
wreck, the coroner wouldn't be able to tell
whether they were killed by shock or had
died from suffocation before the accident
occurred In that way the company would
escape all liability for the death of the pas
sengers. See!"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

FROM recent labor statistics it APP
pears that in the United States during
the past year the number of hands on
strikes or locked out by employers in
January was $4,000. In February,
10000; in March, $4,000, and in May
216,000. From this time there was a
falling off, the numbers ranging from
$4,000 to $1,000 for June, July and
August, with only 5000 for September.
In October the number increased to
$4,000, declining som ewhat for Novem-
Der and falling to 10000 for December.
Thus in the year 100000 hands were
idle for greater or less period.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

WHAT woman may do is APPLY shown
By Signora Enfernia Braiani-Dini, the
well-known contralto singer, who has
10y diligent training converted her voice
nc Il perfect tenor, and is singing tenor
roles in st. Petersburg. This opens the
way for women eventually to sing bass,
and from singing bass to the ballot-box
is but step. Truly affairs are bright
enino.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE Indiana House on the 14th unseated
Meagher dem. }, he being a justice of the
peace when elected, and Dickerson (Rep)
was given the seat. This makes the Leg.
lature tie on Joint ballot.
AT Salem, Ore, an old hotel occupied by
Chinese as a lodging house was burned on
the 14th, and three Cinnamon who col Id
not escape were burned to death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
Mrs. Logan.s Home Secure.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The Mrs. Logan
fund had on Saturday run up to about $50,
0O0. Besides this there was $4,000 con-
tributed by citizens of Chicago, deposited
in Riggs Bank in this city. Yesterday
Mrs. Logan paid off all the encumbrances
on the Calumet place property. Her son,
John A. Logan, and her daughter, Mrs.
Tucker, have united in deed conveying all
their right and interest as heirs in the
house.t to their mother, SO the property is
now Mrs. Logan's.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

A DIVORCE from his fifth wife was re-
GENTLY procured by aresident of Osakis,
Mimi, now in his seventy-fourth year,
but by advertising in a Boston news
paper he has since secured a helpmeeL.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

How IT would amuse the GRANDPA
theirs to note that with all the ''mod-
ern improvements, the best thing sci
cnce can do fer ventilation is to recon-
mend the restoration of the old open
fre-Dlacel
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

A WOMAN in Pennsylvania was ar
rested the other day for robbing the
mails. AS long as husbands carry their
wealth in their trousers pockets this
asgrt of robbery will continue.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

THE recent holiday trade in New
York City amounted to over $5,000,-
O00-greater than ever before known.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

IT might not be out of place, during
bitter cold days, to inform the mercury
in the thermometer that there's plenty
Oflroom at the top.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21
-Four Tramps Burned to Death.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 1S.-When the
special train on the Chesapeake, Ohio &
Southwestern railroad pulled into Paducah
at two o'clock yesterday morning box-car
loaded with cotton was discovered on fire.
The car was rapidly consumed, and in the
ruins were found the charred remains Of
four tramps, who had evidently secreted
themselves among the cotton bales while
the car was N the yards at Memphis. 1t
is thought the fire caught from their pipes.
Flames Cause Heavy Loss.
HoUGHToN, Mich, Jan. 13.-The Calumet
& Torch Lake Railroad round-house was
burned early yesterday morning, with sew
eral locomotives. Loss, 100000.
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Explanation: No. I, fair wcather-Colder.
No 2, warmer-Rain or snow. No. 3 warmer
Fair weather, followed by rain OF snow. No. 4,
fair weather-Cold wave.1
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

Mrs. LOGAN intends to make Wash
ington her future home.
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THE NEW WEATHER CODE.

Description and Explanation of the New
Signals 30 lie Used in Weather Reports
After March ].
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-1he signal office
has sent out circulars from the bureau in
this city giving the new code of signals
adopted for use in the transmitting OF re-
ports regarding the weather which are
to come into general use after March /. The
interpretation of the signals are as fol-
lows:
MOI No.2 No. 8. No. f.
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1t Is interesting to note the progress Of the
railroads in the State of Wisconsin. At the
close of the year 1850 there were 10 miles of
completed road-from Milwaukee to Elm
Grove. At the close of the year 1859 there were
but 815 miles Sof railroad within our linn
its. During the time OF the war of the
rebellion, and the business depression i'm
mediately following, there was but
little of railway building done. In 1861 20
miles; in 1867 So miles; in 1853, none; in 1864
y miles; and during the years 1855. 1856 and
1867, not mile of track was laid IN the State.
After the war was over, and the business of the
country had recovered from the consequent
continued depression and stagnation, railroad
building and railroad development began for
ward march, and have kept even and steady
pace with the other great industries OF the State.
To-day the total number of miles OF railroad
in the State is 4,776.92, constructed at cost Of
s134, 913,502.G7. The average cost per mile was
s40.25a.32, which includes equipments, buildings
and depot grounds. For the year ending June
3D. 1886, the earnings Of the roads were $50 972,-
$3.50, OF which amount s. $50 SO was
from passengers, S14, $50 60953 from freignt, and
s., 4c5, 7e5 3 from mails and express. The labor
TO produce these earnings has required the
services of from 1900 to IS 600 men, at an aver
age yearly compensation Of 500 each. The op-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

fish supply in Lake Superior. Lake Mich aTi
and Green bay.
pTREATT or ramon CT krrc7rrCc
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THE CUNNING COYOTE.

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Madison, Wis, January, 1887.